INDIA: Indira Is Back

She wins a bitter by-election

The lush, hilly, coffee-and rice-growing district is known as
Chikmagalur, "the abode of the little daughter," in the local Kannada
dialect. This Indian constituency, some 1,000 miles south of New Delhi,
has now become a political shelter for "Behnji" (Honored Sister)—a
favorite nickname of the formidable Indira Gandhi. In a bitter
by-election, the former Prime Minister last week defeated a lackluster
candidate of the country's ruling Janata coalition to win a seat in
India's Lok Sabha (lower house of parliament), where she has not been
seen since her Congress Party was...